Nagoya University Global COE-RCMS International Symposium on Organic Chemistry and the 6th Yoshimasa Hirata Memorial Lecture

8:45- 8:55 Opening Remarks: Yoshihito Watanabe

(Vice President and G-COE Leader, Nagoya Univ.)

(Chair: Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya Univ.)

8:55- 9:40 IL-01 Kazuo Nagasawa (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology)

Synthesis of Saxitoxins

9:40-10:25 IL-02 Kazunori Koide (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)

Organic Approaches to the Development of Fluorescent Indicators

10:25-10:40 Coffee Break

(Chair: Kazuaki Ishihara, Nagoya Univ.)

10:40-11:25 IL-03 Scott Snyder (Columbia Univ., USA)

Lessons in Chemoselectivity:

Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products

11:25-12:10 IL-04 Susumu Saito (Nagoya Univ.)

Selective Activation and Reaction of Alcohol for Organic Synthesis:

Pursuing Hydrogen Bonds and Hydrogen Transfer Process

in Molecular Catalysis through Its Beyond

12:10-14:00 Lunch & Poster Seession

(Chair: Takashi Ooi, Nagoya Univ.)

14:00-14:45 IL-05 Zhenfeng Xi (Peking Univ., China)

Cooperative Effect: Reaction Chemistry of Organo-bi-Lithio Reagents

14:45-15:30 IL-06 Sukbok Chang (KAIST, Korea)

Catalytic C-H Functionalization of Heterocycles for the C-C and

C-N Bond Formation

(Chair: Masato Kitamura, Nagoya Univ.)

15:30-16:15 IL-07 Keisuke Suzuki (Tokyo Inst. of Technology)

Synthetic Studies of Polyketide-Derived Polycyclic Natural Products

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

6th Yoshimasa Hirata Memorial Lecture

(Chair: Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Nagoya Univ.)

16:30-16:40 Awarding Ceremony

16:40-17:55 Jeffrey Bode (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)

Reinventing Amide Bond Formation

18:00-20:00 Banquet

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